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mcnewsxp wrote:

>
> my dear html experts - i am not trying to *make* it go vertical. it goes horizontl just fine in IE, but not firefox or chrome. it goes down. i don't want it to go down. i want to why it goes down so i can fix it.
>
> can yez pleez hep me or not.....?
>



I didn't see it. Aside of IE's lack of CSS support of rounded borders it
look basically the same to me.


<http://www.littleworksstudio.com/temp/usenet/sss-ie-ff>

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On Wednesday, June 20, 2012 5:59:54 PM UTC-4, Jonathan N. Little wrote:
> mcnewsxp wrote:
>
> >
> > my dear html experts - i am not trying to *make* it go vertical. it goes horizontl just fine in IE, but not firefox or chrome. it goes down. i don't want it to go down. i want to why it goes down so i can fix it.
> >
> > can yez pleez hep me or not.....?
> >
>
>
>
> I didn't see it. Aside of IE's lack of CSS support of rounded borders it
> look basically the same to me.
>
>
> <http://www.littleworksstudio.com/temp/usenet/sss-ie-ff>
>
> --
> Take care,
>
> Jonathan
> -------------------
> LITTLE WORKS STUDIO
> http://www.LittleWorksStudio.com

yea, i fixed it - with help of course.

On Wednesday, June 20, 2012 5:58:21 PM UTC-4, dorayme wrote:
> In article <74e0b489-8ddb-43fe-aaf9->,
> mcnewsxp <> wrote:
>
> > On Tuesday, June 19, 2012 1:29:15 PM UTC-4, dorayme wrote:
> > > In article <ffabe1c6-2440-422c-9302->,
> > > mcnewsxp <> wrote:
> > >
> > > > the bottom table on this page looks ok in IE but not firefox or chrome:
> > > >
> > > > login in with test test at
> > > >
> > > > http://stellarschoolservices.org/
> > > >
> > > > click the SCHEDULE link
> > > >
> > > > TherapistsScheduler.aspx
> > > >
> > > > i am actual trying to make the <td>s the same size across the page.
> > > >
> > > > how to fix?
> > > >
> > >
> > > If you really want, for some reason, to use a table this way and have
> > > the cells go down (rather than across as usual) but just want the text
> > > to fit in and all cells to look the same size: try something like
> > > width: 8em; and no height or a min-height (in px if you must! but best
> > > not)
> > >
> > > --
> > > dorayme
> >
> > my dear html experts - i am not trying to *make* it go vertical. it goes
> > horizontl just fine in IE, but not firefox or chrome. it goes down. i don't
> > want it to go down. i want to why it goes down so i can fix it.
> >
> > can yez pleez hep me or not.....?
>
> Are you not getting my posts on this? I suggested for you to remove
> display: block from td.tdBod days back when you posted under the
> thread with a name like "table td question". I have also made other
> remarks that you might find useful about using em rather than px.
>
> This is the first time, by the way, that you have clearly said that
> you don't want the cells to go down.
>
> --
> dorayme

i took the block out right away. the em thing didn't make sense because i see a lot of people using px for td size. but i was obviously wrong. and you were not the only one to mention the em thing.

first time - not really. if you looked at the page in IE you'd have seen it going across and i said i wanted it to look like it does in IE.

so whatever...

thanks for the help.

In article <4b96ecb3-75b4-4ba6-8de8->,
mcnewsxp <> wrote:

> On Wednesday, June 20, 2012 5:58:21 PM UTC-4, dorayme wrote:
....
> > > >



Some mention was made, iirc, about having the cells the same size. You
can achieve this, but there are no guarantees across all browsers,
depending on how you width the table family elements and the nature of
your content. To take two simple cases, if you don't width your table
element, leaving it at its default auto and give sufficient width to
the TD elements for content to wrap,

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In article <dorayme->,
dorayme <> wrote:

> In article <4b96ecb3-75b4-4ba6-8de8->,
> mcnewsxp <> wrote:
>
> > On Wednesday, June 20, 2012 5:58:21 PM UTC-4, dorayme wrote:
> ...
> > > > >
>
>
>
> Some mention was made, iirc, about having the cells the same size. You
> can achieve this, but there are no guarantees across all browsers,
> depending on how you width the table family elements and the nature of
> your content. To take two simple cases, if you don't width your table
> element, leaving it at its default auto and give sufficient width to
> the TD elements for content to wrap,
....

er... that was sent in mid composition by accident!

The other simple case was where you give a percentage width to the
cells, as many as needed, to make up the whole, in this case, you
don't need to set a width to the table element.

But really, there are too many variables in these matters to summarise
a set of simple rules that most people will easily remember. The
presence of borders, paddings, margins, unexpected user text sizes,
can throw off a lot of these calculations and expectations.

The truth is that it is very much better not to be bothered about, not
to want, such precision, to let tables find their own ways, to dictate
as little as possible about widths and heights. The browser not only
is often likely to do a more reasonable user friendly layout all on
its own but can ignore your widths and heights with no particular
censure from HTML specifications.

It goes against the whole idea of flexibility and fluidity and
adaptability to try to force equal width cells across. It is often
simply a waste of space (because small content does not need to be as
wide as bigger content) in pursuit of an overly simplistic aesthetic.

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dorayme